Russian News Monitor – Russia’s best chess champs to compete for $134,500 prize fund (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Russia’s best chess champs to compete for $134,500 prize fund (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Russia’s best chess players will vie for a prize fund of 4.11 million rubles ($134,500) in a championship super final scheduled on Saturday in Moscow, the Russian Chess Federation’s website reported.
Putin travels from St Petersburg to Moscow by new high-speed train (Itar-Tass)
MOSCOW, December 19 (Itar-Tass) — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin travelled form St. Petersburg to Moscow by the new high-speed train Sapsan on Saturday.
Russian FM condemns demolition of war memorial in Georgia (Itar-Tass)
MOSCOW, December 19 (Itar-Tass) –The demolition of a war memorial in Georgia is an “act of state vandalism” that “insults the feelings of any civilised person”, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
Russia, US end another round of arms reductions talks in Geneva (Itar-Tass)
GENEVA, December 19 (Itar-Tass) – Russia and the U.S. have ended another round of talks on reductions of strategic offensive weapons, sources at the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN and other Geneva-based international organizations told Itar-Tass.
Russia, US close to nuclear pact: Spokesman (The Herald)
Retures. Moscow. Russia and the United States are very close to resolving all remaining questions on a new treaty to slash vast Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons, the Russian Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
Finland tops Russia 3-2 in Channel 1 Cup hockey (Sports Illustrated)
MOSCOW (AP) — Petri Kontiola scored with seven seconds left to give Finland a 3-2 comeback win over world champion Russia in the Channel One Cup on Saturday.
Politics › Okada to visit Russia from Dec 27 to discuss territorial issue (Japan Today)
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada will make a two-day visit to Russia from Dec 27 for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over a long-standing…
Stop seeing West as threat, NATO chief tells Russia (Malaysian Mirror)
MOSCOW – Russia should stop seeing the West as a threat, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday, as he called for a new partnership between Moscow and the transatlantic alliance.
Obama says U.S., Russia “close to an agreement” on nuclear arms reduction deal (People’s Daily)
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States and Russia are “quite close to an agreement” on further nuclear arms reduction after meeting his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Copenhagen. “We’ve been making excellent progress. We are quite close to an agreement,” Obama told reporters after the meeting, which came on the sidelines of UN climate talks here. He said he was …
Obama Says U.S., Russia Close on Nuclear Arms Accord (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said the U.S. and Russia are “quite close” to agreeing on terms for a nuclear arms reduction treaty. “We’re making excellent progress,” Obama said after he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met in Copenhagen, where the two leaders are attending a United Nations summit on climate change.
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